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Indian girl born with three hands worshiped as a god

Baby girl in India born with three hands
This baby girl is being worshiped in India - because she was born with three hands.

The infant was born on November 2 to mother Radhika Sahu with a small additional arm and hand growing out of her chest.

She has quickly become the talk of her village in the Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh, India - with some even worshiping the tot as a God.

Her concerned family reported the extra hand - a one-in-a-million anomaly - to their local health centre, and their daughter was examined and found to be perfectly healthy.

Dr. B.P. Singh, in charge of Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Science (SIMS) has recommended an operation to remove the hand and allow the child to live a normal life.

Snowflake

Brief and unexpected: Snow hits Las Vegas, Nevada

Snow falls in Vegas
© K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal @kmcannonphoto
Centennial High School basketball players, from left, Kalyn Miller, 15, Teionni McDaniel, 16, and Jessenia Lawson, 15, play in a light snow before their team's game at the Las Vegas Holiday Classic Tournament at Centennial High School in Las Vegas, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018.
It was brief and unexpected but snow fell in Las Vegas.

The National Weather Service says snow wasn't in the forecast Thursday but it was reported in the valley around mid-day. None of it stuck in the lower elevations.

Meteorologist Ashley Wolf told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a cold front and abnormally low-hanging clouds combined to produce the strange weather. She says the dryness underneath the clouds had a cooling effect, despite the temperature being above 50 degrees.

Headphones

North Dublin residents report massive boom, house-shaking

Swords Castle in Dublin, Ireland
© Dublin Live
Several people in Swords took to social media this morning after reportedly hearing a loud bang - with one person saying "the whole house shook".

Local resident Lesley McKeever posted a question on her Facebook status shortly after 10am asking if anyone else had heard the loud bang - or felt the "huge shake".

She said: "Anyone else in Swords just feel a huge shake and hear a loud bang about ten minutes ago???

"The whole house shook...have checked everywhere inside and out nothing seems out of the ordinary???"

Others reported hearing the noise, which some suggested may have come from the nearby quarry at Feltrim.

Music

'Eerie trumpeting noises' heard in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

Strange sounds (stock)
© vexels.com
On December 1, 2018, YouTube user 'Huey Lewis' shared a clip of eerie trumpeting noises he heard on November 29th at 1:30 am in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada:


Attention

Strange noises heard in the skies of India

Strange sounds in India
© YouTube/Hammad Mustafa
On December 11, 2018, YouTuber 'Hammad Mustafa' uploaded video of strange noises he heard in the skies of India.

A commenter on the video reported they heard the same sounds, the same day in Ohio.


Arrow Down

Massive sinkhole disrupts traffic along road in Sarawak, Malaysia

A lorry hangs precariously over the sinkhole
© Wak Afzan Adan
A lorry hangs precariously over the sinkhole after its front wheels became stuck.
A sinkhole that occurred in the middle of Kilometre 53 of the Sri Aman-Kuching road has caused traffic to come to a standstill from both directions.

According to a Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) spokesperson, the incident was discovered at around 4.20am today at the Rapak Tepus, Pantu area along the road.

"This incident has disrupted traffic movement from both directions," the spokesperson added in a statement here today.

It was also learned that the incident had caused a lorry to become stranded in the pit. The sink hole is estimated to be more than two metres wide.


Attention

Agencies overwhelmed as over 127 dead dolphins wash up on Southwest Florida shores in 2018

A dead dolphin is washed up on the beach south
© Roger Jacobsen
A dead dolphin is washed up on the beach south of Lowdermilk Park close to North Lake Drive in Naples on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018.
As it has for been many species, 2018 was a terrible year for dolphins, which are still in what was declared an "unusual mortality event" by government agencies in August.

The region's unrelenting and remarkably virulent toxic red tide is thought to be to blame. Scientific confirmation of its lethal impact on dolphins, however, has been slow in coming

Though more 127 dolphins have died in Southwest Florida during the event, there are only 16 definitive necropsy results, which speaks to the level of overwhelm, agencies say.

And it's entirely possible that more animals are dying than are being counted, said Kim Amendola, communications supervisor for National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries division, but now, with the federal government partially shut down since Saturday, NOAA's body counts aren't being updated.

Comment: Red tide suspected as 22 dead dolphins wash up on Collier, Lee beaches in Florida


Attention

Dead minke whale discovered on west shore of Yarmouth Bar, Canada

WHALE
The body of a minke whale measuring close to 20 feet was discovered on the western shore of Yarmouth Bar on Christmas Day.

Andrew Reid, a response co-ordinator with the Marine Animal Response Society (MARS), says officials with the Oceanographic Environmental Research Society and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans had visited the dead mammal and collected samples and measurements.

From the length of the whale, Reid estimates that it is a juvenile minke whale.

Reported maximum lengths for minke whales are 30-35 feet for females and 29-32 feet for males. Both sexes can weigh four to five tons at sexual maturity. They typically live 30-50 years.

Comment: 14 minke whale deaths in Canadian Maritime Provinces this year surpasses annual average


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Earthquake of magnitude 5.6 felt across northern Venezuela

People stand on the street after an earthquake was felt across northern Venezuela
© REUTERS/Manaure Quitero
People stand on the street after an earthquake was felt across northern Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela December 27, 2018.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 hit northern Venezuela early on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, with witnesses reporting tremors more than 100 km (60 miles) from the epicenter. The quake was recorded 4 km northeast of San Diego at 0859 GMT at a depth of about 10 km, according to the USGS website.

"The whole house shook," said a witness in Club de Campo, 102 km from the epicenter, in a posting on the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) website.

Another witness said the quake lasted five or six seconds.

There were no immediate reports of casualties or significant damage.

Snowflake

Many Tahoe ski resorts got up to 18 inches of new snow for Christmas

Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows

Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows
Ski areas around the Tahoe Basin were apparently on Santa's nice list this year, getting a fresh shot of powdery snow for skiers celebrating Christmas on the slopes.

Resorts on all sides of Lake Tahoe reported snowfall ranging from 6 inches to 18 inches of new snow by Christmas morning after a system rolled through the region Christmas Eve and through the night.

"It was a good shot in the arm for winter in general," said Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe spokesperson Mike Pierce.

"Not that we were thin, but it put that nice fresh coat (of snow) on everything — making Tahoe shine and look spectacular."

The fresh snow allowed Mt. Rose to open new terrain on Christmas Day, including many previously-closed runs on the Slide Side.